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Misinformation and G. W. Bush

Bush support tied to misinformation
American Assembler

US Diplomats Launch Bush Attack
BBC News World Edition, May 4, 2004, 07:43 GMT

No mention of this on CNN.com international or US editions more than five ten hours after the BBC dateline.

(Brief AP wire-service account posted on CNN international at 17:58 GMT.)

Dear Mr President

Your unqualified support of Sharon’s extra-judicial assassinations, Israel’s Berlin Wall-like barrier, its harsh military measures in occupied territories, and now your endorsement of Sharon’s unilateral plan are costing our country its credibility, prestige and friends. (more)

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Diplomats Slam Blair on Mid-East
BBC News World Edition, April 27

Ambassadors’ Letter to Blair

We the undersigned former British ambassadors, high commissioners, governors and senior international officials, including some who have long experience of the Middle East and others whose experience is elsewhere, have watched with deepening concern the policies which you have followed on the Arab-Israel problem and Iraq, in close co-operation with the United States. (more).